Live online class at MM10

Hi everyone!

Today I am going to tell you about the experience of a live online class that my class carried out the past 4th of May at MM10.
MM10 (or Moodle Mooc 10) is a series of online conferences about different topics regarding education that are taking place from 1st of May until 4th of June. The purpose of this, is to connect teachers around the world, in order to exchange knowledge and experiences including or not technology in the classroom.

The conference was called Open Educational Digital Projects for CLIL Primary Education. We have talked about the experience with ICT of each one of us in our ICT course from the Master's Degree in Bilingual Education, it includes our own learning diaries, our blogs.

To make this, we have followed these steps:
- Draft our speech.
- Design a support slide (for a common presentation).
- Participate in the Online Conference in MM10 (in which I could not intervene because of technical problems).
- Reflect on the experience in our learning diary.
Here is my class presentation and my support slide:

Open educational digital projects for clil primary education from Jefe de Área de Formación en Red y Redes Sociales. INTEF

My support slide

After that, we have to prepare a speech for the conference of no more than five minutes, to present and talk about our Open Educational Digital Project. You can see my speech upload with Issuu here:


The 4th of May, we went to the conference page and present our collaborative live class here one by one. You can see the conference belong:



REFLECTION
Even if I cannot participate in the conference, I could see it and it was an incredible opportunity to learn, from my classmates and other teachers, new ways of education using ICT.
This makes me think about what kind of teacher I want to be in the future, because I really believe that motive our students and use a creative and innovative methodology in our classrooms are the key to be a good teacher.
Thanks to this online conference I have notices that share your knowledge and learn from other can make you open your eyes about somethings. It was very interesting to hear my classmates' presentations and see their ideas and the Projects they have created.

I would like to say also, that I have learnt a lot during this Masters' ICT course, new tools, techniques and different ways to teach a content (no more exercises, more super learning missions). ICT is a time consuming subject but it is also an important subject for us as a 21st century teachers.
If you incorporate ICT into your lessons, you know it, but if not and you are going to do it, you will see it. It is a hard work for the teacher, you have to be so many hours preparing the content and the challenges that your students will finish in five minutes, but you will see also that they like learn new things because it is not a bored activity, it is funny and it has a lot of advantages.
This is what I was feeling during these four months in the subject. We have so much work to do, but I have learnt a lot and I am going to use almost all of these resources in my future lessons.


If you have any doubt or you have tried it, leave a comment. I hope you like it.

Assessment rubric with Quick Rubric

Hi everyone!

Now is time to evaluate the work done by our children. To do that, we have to design an assessment rubric.
I am going to include some important elements to take into account when designing rubrics.

What means assess?
To assess means to evaluate students knowledge about the subject matter. It determines if the aims have been acquired or not. The following characteristics are the one that I am going to take into account:
- Provides diagnostic feedback.
- Evaluate progress.
- Helps educators set standards.
- Motivates development.
- Allows self-evaluation.

What is assessment rubric?
It is a tool that indicates the marked aims or criteria. It can be used for class participation, acquired knowledge and so on, in any primary course.
I decided to create a rubric to evaluate my students. When creating a rubric it is important to consider the final result that the student are going to produce and also the progress that they make throughout the Project.

Rubric elements
To create a rubric we have to take into account some elements:
- Aspects of the learning process to be assessed.
- Criteria.
- Scale of ratings.
- Clear descriptors.

Creating a rubric
First you have to think what you want to evaluate with your rubric and start designing a prototype rubric. To make it, I have used Quick Rubric. This is an easy and brilliant tool to create rubrics on a faster way.
I have taken into account the following aims: content knowledge, class participation, progress during the Project, group work and self-evaluation (of each child, they have to complete it) and this is the final result.

Image retrieved from Quick Rubric

After assess them with the rubric, the teacher can ask them if they are agree or not, in order to make them self-assessment.

They can also write their opinions about the activities on a paper and give it to the teacher, this is so that the teacher can improve the activities, his/her assessment by the students.

Self-reflection and conclusion
Before this challenge, I knew that evaluation was important in the teaching-learning process. In addition, I created several rubrics for this, but I always used Word because I did not know about this tool. Now that I know Quick Rubric, I am going to continue using it since as I said earlier, it is easy to use and brilliant to create rubrics faster.
In addition, I recommend you to create a scheme before you start designing it, so you have everything well organised. This will be very useful when you start creating the rubric since it will only be copied with the tool.

In my opinion, I consider that the rubrics are crucial when evaluating a child all the work he/she has done during the lessons, although we do not always take enough time to design them. Therefore, I encourage you to spend more time creating a good rubric so that when you have to evaluate any child, it will be easier for you.

If you have any doubt or you have tried it, leave a comment. I hope you like this resource.

Super learning mission 2: Create a class blog!

Hi everyone!

Today I want to show you the second super learning mission that I have created. I am going to follow the previous post steps to explain this super learning mission. This mission, consist of create a class blog in which each child has to write a post, they have to make some draws to explain it (done by themselves) like the habitat, the skeleton of the animal, its food and so on.
This is in order to continue working with No me cuentes historias, ¡dibújamelas! because children have to draw it, not only explain.

- Learning mission instrucions:

• First, children have to take into account the information they found for the comic.
• Then, they have to write all the information on a post in the class blog following the next structure:

1. Explain the animal's habitat.
2. Talk about the groups to which the animal belongs (viviparous-oviparous, vertebrate-invertebrate, mammal-bird-reptile-fish-amphibian).
3. Tell what the animal eats and if it is carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
4. Explain some extra strange or surprising information.

- Goals to be achieved:

• Be creative.
• Review acquire knowledge.
• Learn how to make posts.
• Express himself/herself on a correct way (written form).
  

- Digital tool:

• Blogger.

- Competences involved:

• Digital skills.
• Social and civic skills.
• Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
• Cultural awareness and expression.

- Collaborative Project alliegned with:

• No me cuentes historias, ¡dibújamelas!

- An example post:

- What have I learnt with this super learning mission?

Firstly, I want to say that I have learnt a lot making the previous posts. At the beginning of this year, I have never made a blog, so I didn't know how I could make posts, what I could write on the post, how I could add photos or videos and so on.

Nowadays, I know a few things, because I am not an expert, so in my experience this is a fun way to communicate to others what I am learning, so they can take advantage of this, learn it and use it in the way they like the most.
The most difficult part, as in the previous post, has been to think about the super learning mission, since as I said before, I am more accustomed to carry out the activities of the book or some invented, but not to create a super learning mission where children phave an active participation.
So again, I encourage you to try it with your students, because it is made with an easy tool, encourages group participation and is funny for the children and for the teacher to see their draws. This is other useful tool that I am going to use in my future clases.

If you have any doubt or you have tried it, leave a comment. I hope you like this second super learning mission and you like it.

Super learning mission 1: Make a comic!

Hi everyone!

Today I am going to talk about how to turn an activity or exercise into a super learning mission. The teacher has to draft the learning mission instrutions, the goals to be achieved, the digital tool that the children are going to use and the competencies involved. The teacher can also alliegned it with the partner collaborative Project that she wants to contribute if she or he has it. Now I am going to show you my super learning mission, how the comic would be and what I have learnt.

- Learning mission instructions:

• First, children have to choose an animal to make a comic.
• Then, they have to look information about it (if it is vertebrate or invertebrate, what it eats, how it moves, if it is a mammal, fish, reptile, bird or amphibian, where it lives and how we can take care of its hábitat).
• When the child has the information, he/she has to make a comic with the tool StoryboardThat. (I told you about this tool on a previous post).
• Finally, each of them have to show and explain their comic to their classmates.

- Goals to be achieved:

• Be creative.
• Review animals movements, feedings and groups (viviparous/oviparous, vertebrate/invertebrate, mammal/bird/fish/reptile/amphibian).
• Know how to look for information online.
• Express himself/herself.

- Digital tool:

• StoryboardThat.

- Competences involved:

• Communication skills.
• Digital skills.
• Social and civic skills.
• Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
• Cultural awareness and expression.

- Collaborative Project alliegned with:

• No me cuentes historias, ¡dibújamelas!

- Comic:

Made with Storyboard That

- What have I learnt with this super learning mission?
The first thing that I have learnt is that a super learning mission is funnier than an activity or exercise, because the child is involved in the learning process and he/she has to think and be creative to make it.
The most difficult part was turn an activity or exercise into a super learning mission, I think because I am accustomed to simple activities from the book or from another site. But doing this super learning mission, has made me see that, although it is difficult for the teacher to carry it out, create it or explain it, it is an easier way for the student to learn the contents and that they look for information outside the book to learn, to explore by themselves.
That is because I encourage you to try it with your students, because it is made with an easy tool, funny for the children and for the teacher to see their comics, so I am going to use it in my future clases.


If you have any doubt or you have tried it, leave a comment. I hope you like this super learning mission and you like it.